With Extreme Carnage on its way, now is a good time to catch up on the Life Foundation symbiotes, including Lasher. Marvel has been continually delivered symbiote mayhem. King in Black just recently ended and before that was Absolute Carnage. Now, Carnage will return along with the rest of Venom's family. So who exactly is Lasher and where has he been lately?
Like Phage, Agony, Scream, and Riot, Lasher is a symbiote that is associated with the Life Foundation. This organization wanted to develop better security, so it caught Eddie Brock and forcefully caused the birth of new offspring. This security turned out to be symbiotes bonded to volunteer hosts who also became associated with the Life Foundation name thanks to their beginnings. Like his siblings, he has super strength, stamina, and a healing factor. He can also camouflage himself like the others. Lasher is distinguished from his siblings by his green coloration and tentacles. Although the symbiotes can manipulate their bodies, they choose to do it in different ways, making identification easier. Carnage and Phage both create blades out of their gooey bodies, while Lasher creates tendrils that are usually coming out of his back. He was also given a new ability in Carnage, U.S.A.
Lasher starts out like the other Life Foundation symbiotes. Created from Eddie Brock's other in Venom: Lethal Protector #4 (1993), Lasher's first host is Rámon Hernández, who volunteered for the project. However, like the other original Life Foundation hosts, he appears to die in their debut. Both Rámon and Lasher survive to appear in Venom: Separation Anxiety (1994), where his host does in fact die, at the hands of Scream.
Hybrid is introduced in Venom: Along Came a Spider, where Lasher is collectively bonded to Scott Washington along with his siblings before he is killed by Venom in a later series. His early years don't provide a lot distinction for the character, though this changes a little later on. Hopefully each of the Life Foundation symbiotes will continue to add to their own stories going forward.
The Life Foundation symbiotes next appear in Carnage, U.S.A (2011). This series allows Lasher to bond with animals in a controlled state, as well as non-sentient weaponry. Combining these two turns Lasher into a bio-weapon that is different from his siblings since he bonds to a German Shepherd "war dog" that is "symbiotically enhanced" and leashed to Chief Petty Officer Marcus Simms. Lasher and his siblings are used here to take down Carnage after he possesses the population of Doverton, Colorado. Simms is a part of Mercury Team.
In Deadpool Vs. Carnage (2014), Deadpool comes across Mercury Team's base where he becomes a different version of Hybrid, partially bonding to the four symbiotes remaining. By this point, Scream has not been with her siblings for several years. After Deadpool faces Carnage, the remaining Life Foundation symbiotes bond to the German Shepherd from Carnage, U.S.A, who the Merc with a Mouth turns loose.
Immediately after Deadpool leaves the symbiotes, the dog wanders to the home of a family in Colorado that is falling apart. The symbiotes proceed to bond with the various family members in the horror-driven tie-in, Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety #1 (2019). Following this the four Life Foundation symbiotes become part of Knull's symbiote army in the paradigm-changing King in Black event. Lasher is seen facing off against his sister Scream, once more, though she ultimately defeats him. He will be returning in Extreme Carnage: Lasher #1. This will be Lasher's first "independent" comic, but it will also mark the birth of a new symbiote.
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June 20, 2021 at 12:22AM
